From: Andrew Webber (awebber_at_sgml-mercs.com)
Date: Thu May 20 1999 - 23:16:44 EDT
On Thu, 20 May 1999 19:22:57 -0700, Benjamin Koh wrote:
>Well, I have JFAX, which is the same thing - my faxes are free and come
>to me as .TIF attachments. The simple answer to your question can be
>found in the User Agreement (you did read that didn't you?). In it, you
>agree to receive "unsolicited commercial email." So the company makes
>its money by selling your personal details to marketing companies, who
>then merrily send you information about their "valuable" services and
>products. I've had my fair share of crap arrive ever since I signed up
>for JFAX. Fortunately my filters work, so I receive spam only once from
>each source - then I block it. I figure the minor (for now) spam
>annoyance is worth the $100+ I'd need for a fax machine proper.
Well, I skimmed it (really I did, I read the part about "Your
privacy is very important to us. However, we collect and, in some
cases, disclose information about you as part of the normal
operation of our site.").
I did notice they could provide access to me to third parties. The
one I paid attention to was, "when I accessed through another
site".
I have a fax machine. A nice one. Plain paper (thermal ribbon),
512k memory. It will even stick the incoming fax into memory then
re-send it elsewhere (haven't tried that).
But it's immobile. And there has to be someone here to tell me
I've got a fax, when I'm away. Not that I get many faxes --
certainly many fewer than five years ago!
Thanks for your comments. I agree that the spam is probably worth
the cost of buying a fax machine. In my case, it's probably worth
getting the spam for the flexibility.
Unless someone knows of a pay-for service that would give me
similar flexibility to receive faxes without the junk?
Thanks!
andrew
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